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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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